The Game Boy is the ancestor of modern gaming devices including smartphones and it was introduced in 1989. The handheld device has seen several iterations and it still maintains its presence in the gaming segment to date. The Wordle word game has now been ported into Game Boy, bringing a vocabulary of up to 8,000 of the most popular English words.

The full version of the game cannot be incorporated into Game Boy due to the handheld’s limited ROM size. However, the new version of the Wordle game has now been incorporated as an abridged word list unlike the general version of the game. The game was ported into Game Boy by Kotaku notes security researcher Stackmashing who used some filtering mechanism to determine popular English words up to 8,000.

WORDLE is now running on the Game Boy! pic.twitter.com/Zk8aDr7MST

— stacksmashing (@ghidraninja) February 6, 2022

The procedure for having the device on your Game Boy includes downloading the game and loading it into a compatible cartridge that could then be used to play the game. Not much of the Nintendo iconic Game Boy is available and it could be stressful getting it into the console itself. So Wordle lovers can get the game from other devices which are easily accessible. The game has been adapted to several other applications like Palm PDA and there seems to be a direct plan to make it a ubiquitous game.

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Wordle has officially been acquired by The New York Times. The game, which has lately been the cause of your Twitter feed being filled with colored blocks, was purchased for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.”

NYT announced the deal on Monday, saying that the game will be free to play for new and existing players and that no changes will be made to its gameplay.

Since Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, released the guessing game in October 2021, Wordle has grown exponentially in popularity. Only 90 people played it on November 1, but just around a couple of months later, you got millions grinding daily.

For the uninitiated, Wordle is basically a word guessing game, only that it’s limited to 5 letter words. It offers 6 tries and each wrong guess offers new clues to the right answer using a color-coded block system. Yellow letters are correct guesses in the wrong spot, while green letters match up with the solution.

Until now, the game has been completely free-to-play and isn’t bundled with ads or in-app purchases. There’s no Play Store listing either and it can only be played on the browser. This does not appear to be changing anytime soon and Wordle will only be added to the existing NYT catalog of engaging puzzle games.

Wardle pushed a statement to Twitter confirming he’ll be working with NYT to transfer player scores along with the game itself when its ownership is switched. He also admitted that the New York Times has played a big part in the game’s origin, so the acquisition feels “very natural.”

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